Unit-system display-bin.



- PATENTBD 00T. 1o, 1905.

H.' G. ROTH. UNIT SYSTEM DISPLAY BIN.

APPLICATION FILED DBO. 2, 1904.

2 SHEETS-SHEET l.

No. 801,401. PATENTED 00T. 10, 1905.

, H. G. ROTH. l UNIT SYSTEM DISPLAY BIN.

APPLICATION FILED DEO. 2, 190%.

SHEETS-SHBBT 2.

HENRY G. ROTH, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

UNIT-SYSTEM DISPLAY-BIN.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 10, 1905.

Application filed December 2, 1904. Serial Il:l 235,247.

T0 (LZ/Z whom, it wbrty concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY G. ROTH, acitizen of the United States,residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State ofMinnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inUnit-System Display-Bins; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

My present invention has for its especial object to provide an improvedunit system of display-bins adapted to be put together to forma counteror cabinet of variable capacity, according to the number of bins used.

The invention consists of the novel devices and combinations of deviceshereinafter described, and defined in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate my invention, likecharacters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is a vertical section taken transversely through a plurality ofassembled bins designed in accordance with my invention on the line se'of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the parts shownin Fig. 1, some partsbeing broken away. Fig. 3is a vertical section on the line msof Fig. 4,showing the bins assembled to afford a cabinet; and Fig. 4is a plan Viewof the parts shown in Fig. 3.

The numeral l indicates the body portion of the improved bin, said bodyportion having vertically -spaced horizontally-disposed upper and lowerwalls 2 and 3, respectively. The upper and lower walls 2 and 3 areformed with oblique upwardly and outwardly extending portions 2' and 3a,respectively, that extend approximately at an angle of ninety degreesthereto. The sides of the body l are extended at l, so as to aiiordsides which rigidly unite and follow outwardly and upwardly the top andbottom plate extensions 2 and 3a. The openings at the outer ends of theinclined entrance-passages afforded bythe extensions la, 2, and 3 are,as shown, normally closed by hinged lids 4, that are pivoted at 5 to thesaid extensions 3a.

In someinstances the bins are madedoubleended, as shown at theintermediate portion of Fig.l; but in other instances the said bins aresectioned or divided, as shown at the bottom in Fig. l, the said dividedbins or bin-sections being closed at their abutting ends by walls 1b,which may be fixed thereto or in the form of doors. In the arrangementof the bins shown in Fig. 1 the lower bins are rested in a rim-like base6, which is recessed to receive them, and a countertable 7 is detachablyseated on the upper edge of the upper bin. The counter-table 7 may beprovided with a glass plate 7 when a show-case is desired, and thedepression in the top of the upper bin may be used to contain goods orarticles to be sold.

In the arrangement illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4 a plurality of dividedbins are placed one on top of the other and the lower bin is, as shown,rested upon a base 8. The inclined walls 3u of ,the bins are preferablyprovided with depending stop-flanges 9, that engage the ends o1 thewalls 2a of the bins below them to assist in holding the several bins inVertical alinement.

It is clear from the foregoing statements that the upper and lowerplates oi' the bins are formed on the same lines, so that the bottom or'one bin will fit the top of the other, thereby making it possible topile the bins one on top of the other to any desired extent. It is herevery important to note that the inclined bottom plate extensions Sextend upward and terminate approximately in the horizontal plane of thetop plate 2, thereby leaving the opening, which is normally closed bythe door or lid 4 above said plate 2. This permits the bin proper to becompletely iilled and even affords additional space at the extremity orextremities of the bin which may be lled above the plane of said topplate 2. The purpose of extending upward the extremities of the bin istherefore twofold-to-wit, to aiord means for seating the bins one on topof the other and to elevate the entrance-passage thereto, so that thebins may be completely filled. The desirability of a unit-system bin, bymeans of which the capacity of counters, cabinets, and other devicesformed therefrom may be varied at will, is too obvious to requirefurther comment. The bins would usually, but not always, be formed outof sheet metal.

From what has been said it will be understood that the device describedis capable of modification within the scope of my invention as hereinset forth and claimed.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates, is as follows:

1. A bin having its top, bottom and side plates extended upward, andprovided with an IOO entrance-passage that extends above the horizontalportion of the seid top plete, substantially as described.

2. A verticellyerranged series of bins having, et their open ends, theirbottom plates extended upward and outward, and terminating approximatelyin the horizonal planes of their top plates, substantially es described.

3. A bin l having vertically-speced horizontelly-extended upper andlower plates 2 and 3, respectively, said plates Q and 3 hevingrespectively inclined extensions 2" and 3 extended therefrom on the sameangle, said plate extension 3 extending upward approxi-- mately into theplane ot' said plete 2, and the sides of said bin being` extended toform sides to said plate extensions 2 and 3, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aflx my signature in presence of two witnesses.HENRY G. ROTH. l/Vitnesses:

ETHEL BAILEY, H. D. KILGORE.

